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An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons. ↗

— Major Taylor

#athlete #champions #clean #live #lives

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. ↗

— Major Taylor

#confront #deep #deep feeling #every #express

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. ↗

— Major Taylor

#benefit #bicycle #champions #discourage #entertained

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. ↗

— Major Taylor

#attained #carried #could #courage #enough

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. ↗

— Major Taylor

#cardinal #characters #clean #clean living #greatest

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. ↗

— Major Taylor

#bow #champion #day #each #even

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion. ↗

— Major Taylor

#champion #cite #clean #clean living #coupled

Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#day #i #i remember #remember

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. ↗

— Major Taylor

#among #beset #class #closest #closest friends

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#becoming #blues #ever #female #guitar